The sky was dawning, and all the brigade wolves that infested disappeared, and Kunyang City resumed ordinary positional warfare.

At this time, the 'telescopic tactics' proposed by Zhao Yu have also been informed to every general who leads the troops, even the brigade wolf governors, have also been notified.

The so-called 'telescopic tactics', as the name implies, are one 'stretch' and one 'shrink', shrinking the defensive line during the day and stretching the defensive line at night.

As for the purpose, it was nothing more than Zhao Yu's desire to mislead Guan Shuo and make the latter mistakenly believe that Kunyang could be captured.

To explain here, Zhao Yu is not convinced that Guan Shuo will not be able to capture Kunyang, but he knows very well that once Guan Shuo chooses to give up the capture of Kunyang, the latter will definitely make retaliatory actions such as burning the city, and the threat he will face in Kunyang is actually greater.

Rather take the risk of competing with Guan Shuo for Kunyang, Zhao Yu didn't want the other party to give up and continue to attack Kunyang, and even proposed a 'telescopic tactic' for this reason.

In order to prevent the leakage of the real purpose, the purpose of Zhao Yu's telescopic tactics was only known to a few people such as Sun Xiu, Ju Sheng, Ma Hong, and Zhang Feng, who were in charge of the street battles in the city, and the rest, even if they were like Liu Tu, did not know the deep meaning.

Because of this, Liu Tu and others did not understand Zhao Yu's intentions.

After receiving the order, Liu Tu frowned and said to the left and right: "At present, the morale of the rebels is low, our side should hold the position to the death, wait for the opportunity to counterattack, and severely frustrate their spirits, but the big leader actually asked me to wait during the day to preserve the strength of the ......"

Guessing left and right: "The big leader cherishes his subordinates, and we should be glad to be there." …… Didn't the Great Leader say that? If you want to regain the lost ground, there is plenty of time at night. ”

"Okay......"

Liu Tu was a little unhappy.

Around the end of the hour, the rebel soldiers from all walks of life in the city ate dry food and began to attack Kunyang one after another.

It is mentioned here that although Zhao Yu intends to 'release water', he will not give up the defense line in vain, and the rebels still have to pay a heavy price for this, after all, 'using the depth to consume the number of rebels' is the general strategy formulated by Zhao Yu, without this premise, it is simply a fool's dream to compete for the city with tens of thousands of rebels.

In other words, Zhao Yu's so-called 'release of water' is actually simply to limit the military power of his subordinates to organize a counteroffensive during the day, and the other is to be decisive when retreating, not to defend the defense line that is about to be lost at the cost of human lives, and retreat when it should be retreated.

Unlike calm generals such as Sun Xiu and Ju Sheng, most of the generals who were born as black tiger thieves are more impulsive, once they kill the red eye, these people will not count any casualties between the enemy and me, and they will fight to the death, not only Liu Tu, but also Ma Hong.

And this is contrary to Zhao Yu's strategy and needs to be restrained.

Under the restraint of Zhao Yu, the guards of the Kunyang side only defended but did not attack in the street battle, and this inevitably avoided the trend of the battle gradually evolving in the direction favorable to the rebels, in the stalemate of half a day, Ju Sheng of Nanjie was forced to retreat three lines of defense, and in the southwest city and the east of the city, Ma Hong, Zhang Feng, and Liu Tu were also forced to retreat one or two streets and alleys.

Some of the more difficult positions, such as mansions with palace walls, workshops of the Brotherhood, etc., were also captured by the rebels.

"Report!"

Around three o'clock, a herald hurriedly rushed into the South City Gate Tower, clasped his fists and announced: "Qi Yu Qu Shuai, our army has captured the 'Cai Mansion' and occupied its related streets and alleys. ”

As soon as he heard this, Guan Shuo hurriedly looked for the approximate location of the 'Cai Mansion' on the map on the table.

This map was drawn by him yesterday, after all, in the case that the southern city wall has been captured by them, the entire Kunyang has actually been seen at a glance, and it is naturally not difficult to draw a rough map.

After about a dozen breaths, Guan Shuo finally found the location of the 'Cai Mansion' on the map, and saw that this mansion had a special location and could be used as a stronghold to clamp the western city wall, and he was very happy.

"Good!"

Holding a short stick, he said excitedly.

As soon as the words fell, he was stunned in his heart.

"What am I doing?"

I want him to close Shuo, lead the Changsha Yishi all the way to conquer the city and conquer the county, and capture more than ten or twenty county seats, but now in Kunyang, he will be ecstatic because his soldiers have occupied a mansion and a street and alley?

At a thought, Guan Shuo became embarrassed again, staring viciously at the map in front of him.

At the same time, Jiangxia Yishi Qu Shuai Chen Miao was also frowning at the map, and suddenly, he spoke: "Brother Guan, have you ever felt ...... Kunyang's defense seems to be much slack today? ”

Without waiting for Guan Shuo to answer, he continued: "Look at this side of South Street, yesterday Cao Wu fought a fierce battle for one day, and only captured three earthen walls, but today is only half a day, and Cao Wu has already captured three ......."

Hearing this, Guan Shuo smiled with a little pride: "Cao Wu is a strong general in our army, brave and strategic, presumably after yesterday's battle, Cao Wu has figured out the tricks of the other side......"

When he said the last two words, he snorted coldly, looking a little disdainful.

“……”

Chen Miao frowned and did not reply.

It is true that the tactics on the other side are actually not so profound, even if Guan Shuo, Chen Miao and others can't say the sentence 'deplete the enemy's vital forces in depth', they can probably still understand what Zhou Hu on the other side has in mind.

Not only Guan Shuo and Chen Miao, but in fact, Qu generals like Cao Wu and other generals who fought on the front line have also understood this one after another, and they are fighting more and more steadily, at least compared with yesterday's frizziness and urgency, today's rebel offensive is much more orderly.

And in this case, it seems reasonable that the opposite side has lost positions in a row?

But Chen Miao still felt that something was wrong.

For example, Cao Wu's opponent, the former song of Changsha Yishi will bow to Sheng.

As far as Chen Miao knows, that Ju Sheng is also a capable general, and now he has defected to Zhou Hu on the opposite side and has been appointed as the guard of South Street, but what makes people wonder is that this guy lost three lines of defense yesterday and three lines of defense in the middle of the day today, but he can't see any hurry.

It stands to reason that as a demoted general, shouldn't Ju Sheng show his value to Zhou Hu as much as possible? What's the value of losing all the time?

Unless......

"Unless it's Zhou Hu's order."

A thought flashed in Chen Miao's heart that made him feel incredible.

In fact, this battle has been fought so far, and he is already a little incomprehensible, after all, there has never been a county town as tenacious as Kunyang.

If the black tiger thieves and the county army are unwilling to give in, what about the Kunyang people in the city? Do they also hold the consciousness that they would rather be broken than broken?

Just when Chen Miao was deeply puzzled by this, on the streets in the north of the city, the county magistrate Liu Bi was encouraging the people.

I saw that this county magistrate, who was once high, was standing on a wooden box at this moment, scolding Fang Xuan, and shouting to everyone sonorously: "...... Don't panic, don't be afraid, everything is under the control of the Zhou leader and the county government, although the rebels have attacked the city, but they are like grasshoppers after the autumn, they can't jump for a few days...... You have to believe in the county government, believe in Liu, believe in the leader of Zhou, it is not the rebels who broke through the southern city wall, but my Kunyang took the initiative to give up the southern city wall, why? Because I'm going to crush this rebel army......"

I have to say that in fact, Liu Bi is not good at military affairs, and he is not very aware of the current war situation, but this does not prevent him from talking eloquently in front of the people in the city and degrading the rebels to worthless.

“…… When the rebels entered the city, there was nothing to panic about, there were the sons of the Black Tigers, the county army, and the Brotherhood militia guarding every street and alley. …… Did you hear the howl of wolves that resounded throughout the city last night? It was the brigade wolves of the Black Tigers wantonly slaughtering the rebels in the streets and alleys that had been occupied by the rebels. It was not the rebels who surrounded my Kunyang, it was my Kunyang who surrounded the rebels! ”

Listening to the impassioned speech of the county magistrate, the people on the street were in good spirits.

Most of these people are mainly old and weak, women and children, and their psychological tolerance is poor, and the young people in the city have basically joined the Brotherhood militia at this moment and participated in this defensive battle.

As far as the current war situation is concerned, there is no need to appease these young people, because the current situation in Kunyang is actually quite good.

The most advantageous point is that there are few deaths, on the other hand, the rebels on the opposite side have suffered heavy casualties in the buildings and alleys, and it is not difficult to understand why even the Brotherhood militia has maintained good morale.

Liu Bi's loud encouragement also faintly spread to the south city gatehouse, and even alarmed Guan Shuo and Chen Miao.

The two of them had different thoughts, and looked coldly at the many people gathered in the streets and alleys north of the city in the distance.

Guan Shuo snorted coldly in this regard: "It won't be long before the people of Kunyang will be desperate!" ”

“……”

Chen Miao glanced at Guan Shuo and did not pick up the stubble.

He was still pondering the strategy of the Zhou Hu opposite, guessing what the other party wanted to do.

After a long time, he said to Guan Shuo: "Although our soldiers have suffered a lot of losses today, from the perspective of the situation, our side has gradually opened up the situation and occupied more and more territory in the city, Zhou Hu will not be indifferent, he may make a counterattack at night." ”

"I know that I have ordered the garrison to be strengthened at night."

Guan Shuo nodded knowingly.

Despite the orders given and even anticipating that the Kunyang side would counterattack, Guan Shuo and Chen Miao still underestimated the strength of the Kunyang side's counterattack at night.

When nightfall, when the first wolf howl resounded throughout the city, Guan Shuo and Chen Miao subconsciously thought that yesterday's sneak attack would continue on the other side, and sent a small group of elite brigade wolves to sneak into the area occupied by their righteous division and sneak attack the unprepared soldiers.

As it turned out, they were wrong, and they underestimated the strength of Kunyang's counterattack.

That night, not only Sun Xiu, Ju Sheng, Ma Hong, Zhang Feng, and Liu Tu, but even the county troops of the west and east city walls also participated in the counterattack in the city under the leadership of Chen Mo and Wang Qing.

"Offensive ——!"

I don't know whose roar resounded throughout the city, and in an instant, in the silent night, like an exploding oil pot, the black tiger thief, the Nanyang pawn, the county army, and the brotherhood militia came out from the west city wall, the east city wall, the south street, the southeast city, and the southwest city, and ignited the entire south city in an instant!

"Report! The Kunyang people launched a comprehensive counterattack, and the entire south of the city has been reduced to a battlefield, and there are enemy soldiers in every street and alley doing a counteroffensive......"

When this news reached the ears of Guan Shuo and Chen Miao, their faces changed suddenly, and they immediately ran out of the city gate tower, standing near the inner city wall, looking at the entire southern city wall.

As the herald had told, compared to the quiet northern city, the entire southern city was in chaos, and the sound of fighting was everywhere.

"Hit back! Call them back to me! ”

After a moment of consternation, Guan Shuo gave the order hatefully.